One of the important findings of Memoori’s annual report The Smart Grid Business in 2011-2016 showed that some 40% of the worlds annual spend on Electrical Transmission and Distribution Equipment goes to Industrial and Commercial markets. Whilst the main body of the industry preoccupies itself with the electrical utility market the traditional manufacturers that span electrical and mechanical controls have also focused on the interface between Smart Buildings and Smart Grid in the industrial and commercial building business. Well before the word Smart Grid entered our lexicon, companies such as Schneider and Siemens were quietly investigating how they could meet the Industrial and Commercial client’s need for a more secure efficient and better quality electrical supply. This market was being badly served by the Utility companies in a number of countries through delivering “dirty power” which was causing outage problems to their internal electrical network. The solution was to overlay intelligent controls across the network […]